SEEKING A COLLECTIONS OFFICER (IMAGES)

APPLICATIONS CLOSE: 5.00 pm Tuesday 18 March, 2025

THE OPPORTUNITY

Under direction of the Collections Manager, the Collections Officer (Images) would undertake a range of tasks related to the RHSV Collection including research and analysis in order to describe and catalogue collection items; scan and digitise images; handle and store collection material; liaise and negotiate with donors and coordinate with stakeholders; represent the section; respond to public enquiries and assist with project development where necessary. The Collections Officer will be required to provide expertise and recommendations for development and management of the RHSV’s Image collection, including the research and interpretation of this collection.

As we are a small organisation the role has curatorial elements too. This could include copyright, contributing to the planning of exhibitions, writing narratives, contributing to publications and interpreting the collection.

The Collections Officer (Images) will be required to work across multiple RHSV systems such as collection management systems (eHive, Archivematica, ATOM) and document management systems on a daily basis. The images collection catalogue is being migrated currently from InMagic DB/TextWorks to eHive (almost finished!).

The RHSV has a small paid staff which is assisted by expert and willing volunteers.  So all our staff need to be willing to work with, recruit, train, lead and direct this volunteer workforce.

CONDITIONS

All staff and volunteers are required to have a current valid Working With Children Check and to sign and abide by our Code of Conduct.

We support staff with training and skills development where necessary.

The Collections Officer is engaged to work 3 days per week (7.6 hrs/day or 22.8 hrs/ week).  Usual hours are 8:45am – 5pm with a 40 minute lunch- break. One of those 3 days must be Friday.

Our home is an unusual 1938 heritage-listed Drill Hall close to Queen Victoria Market and about 150m from Flagstaff Station.

The office closes for 1 week over Christmas/New Year and staff members are required to take this time as part of their annual leave (usually 3 days annual leave excluding public holidays). We operate a TOIL system for over-time if needed.

This position requires on-site attendance.

The Images working space is not accessible. We occupy a heritage-listed building which does not have lifts and the Images Room is up 3 steps from the main hall.

There is  manual handling and movement of a wide range of objects including but not limited to boxes, framed prints, photographic negatives and collection items as required.

TO APPLY

Send a covering letter addressing key selection criteria and your curriculum vitae to Jillian Hiscock, Collections Manager, collections@historyvictoria.org.au

Enquiries can be made to Jillian on the above email or 03 9326 9288.

A full position description can be found here

All applicants are urged to read the PD and respond to the selection criteria and core responsibilities.